The Behind the Scenes Pic of the Day just goes a little mad sometimes. We all go a little mad sometimes. Haven’t you?

Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
Psycho is one of those rare movies where knowing the big twist doesn’t hurt it in a rewatch. Anthony Perkins deserves a lot of credit for that. Every time I watch Psycho I get sucked in to Norman Bates’ aw-shucks charm and forget for a split second that he and the evil “Mother” are one in the same.
Maybe it’s not so much forgetting, but a striving for the ending to be different this time, that Norman has a Vader-like turn to good against the evil Janet Leigh-slaughtering “Mother.” It’s a silly thought, my rational brain knows better, but the yearning is there nonetheless.
Today’s pic features Hitch and Perkins on the set of Psycho. It’s not the most relevatory picture I’ve posted, but any pic with Hitch and Perkins together onset is worth its own day, no?
Enjoy!

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Tomorrow’s Behind the Scenes Pic is a cheatin’ bitch. See ya’ then!
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I always got the strangest looks when I'd refer to the "Vader-like" elements of the movie "Psycho." Nobody seems to pick up on those, much like the subtle R2D2-esque foreshadowing in "Rebecca." And the *clearly* Boba Fett-derived story arc of "Rear Window" is something which oft goes unnoticed. Finally someone is with me on this.

is more of The Thing? Awesome. Agree with ya Quint; revisiting Psycho's kinda like Cronenberg's The Fly...ya just wish they'd somehow worked out a way for the film to finish differently. Ah, The Fly, what a heart-breaker of a movie.

Where in there did I infer that Star Wars came before Psycho? I don't. Nice try, but you could learn from our longtime trolls about how to be a dick for no reason and actually pull it off. Good luck on the next go-round!

The remake wasn't a "fuck you" to the studio. It was Gus VanSant who pushed to do a shot-for-shot remake, but Universal would never let him do it. After Good Will Hunting, VanSant had the clout to make the movie. And the result was...well, Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, and Julianne Moore. The only thing good about that movie was William H Macey, who was an actual improvement on Arbogast, in my humble opinion. I don't know about the necessity of having a subliminal cow image flicked on the screen when he takes the tumble down the stairs, but otherwise he was the only glimmer of quality in that otherwise awful idea of a movie. In the end, though, it wasn't any act of defiance against the studio. It was a considerably bad idea from a normally talented director.

I didn't suggest that you believed "Star Wars" came first. That would be pretty silly, sure. But if you're going assert than thing A is in likeness to thing B, it makes sense, chronologically, for thing B to actually exist at the time of thing A. For instance, I wouldn't say a scene or sequence in a "Friday the 13th" movie is Mario Bava-like. See what I'm saying?<p> Also, you imply, I infer. Now who's the dick?

...is that when Han and Luke emerge from the Millenium Falcon's cargo bay when they've been captured by the Death Star, John Williams quotes the four-note "madness" motif from Bernard Herrmann's Psycho score. It's even pointed out on the documentary on the Psycho DVD. Weird.

at the end of 'Jedi', that was all in his mind. He developed a split personality when Anakin died, stuffed his body and now parades around in the armor as Darth Vader. Oh Jezz Lucas is going to make this the plot of his new trilogy.

Ok, Quint...I know you have a lot of work to do, but try to maintain the grammatical correctness of a professional, please.
It's not "he and the evil “Mother” are one in the same."
It's "he and the evil “Mother” are one AND the same."
Just doing my part for Grammatical Correctness Online. Poor grammar and spelling are the number one cause of bad writing online. It's a real problem that often goes unnoticed or ignored and if left untreated could become serious.

Yeah, I mentioned in some thread on this site that he could have played Norman Bates when he was selected to play Peter Parker. I had never heard of him before, but when I saw his picture, I was shocked how much he looked like PSYCHO!!!

What would be the number two cause of bad writing online? And further in that line of thought, if poor grammar and spelling are the number one cause of bad writing online, what would be the number one cause of bad writing not-online? Perhaps auxesis? Or maybe an overuse of questionmarks to convey passive-aggressive snarky criticisms?

Quint I really think you've hit on something here - it's one of the reasons that films with sad or tragic endings are so rewatchable? For example, I always hope that Carlito is going to make it on that train and out of town - and every time I see the film he gets closer! And don't we all wish that Rick and Ilsa would get it together? Can you do a list of this kind of film, I think it would be delicious.

The Psycho re-make was NOT shot-by-shot identical to the original. It tried somewhat but is very different in many places. Oh and i HATED the re-make. Worst thing Van Sant's ever made (and that's saying something when you talk about a guy who also made "even cowgirls get the blues")

is the opening shot leading to the hotel room. Makes you wonder if Hitchcock was alive today, how he would utilize digital. Hitch did love mattes and various cinematic "tricks". I think Zemeckis thought the same with some of his shots in What Lies Beneath.

Can you guys beleive that until last month i hadn't see PSYCHO? Well, not only i correct that, but i saw PSYCHO II and II in quick sucession as well. As for young Perkins, one can see that he was a sort of poor man's Montegomery Cliff, until this movie made him into an unique actor on his own right on his own name. And what's amazing with Perkins as Norma Bates is that you can't help but be sympathetic to him. Perkins always made Bates sympathetic, including the suprisingly pretty good sequels. I can't help but feel sorry for poor Bates, despiste the fact he's an uncurable psycho (well, i think he is, i haven't seen PSYCHO IV yet).

now that's an ending. That damn thing doesn't even wait for you to catch your breath before it ends.
Psycho by contrast drags post-cellar.
It should've went right from cellar to Perkin's face in cell to car being pulled from swamp. The End.

but it sets up the true ending with Norman alone in the cell, the mother now completely taken over, and the "wouldn't hurt a fly" speech. Maybe early sixties audiences needed some psychological explanation to why "that man was dressin' funny".

Exactly! We're so used to the various levels of psycopath as the modern movie going public. Psycho was one of the first, and a "lets explain this now" scene at the end was neseccary, if somewhat disjointed from the rest of the movie.

That the staggeringly shitty ending didn't come close to harming it's reputation as a masterpiece. Know this is blasphemy, but Psycho 2 was a damn good movie. The remake didn't work at all for me, but I hate Ann Heish or however the fuck you spell her name. And really, who cares?